EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING

The challenge of research in occupational health nursing: the elephant in the room?

JAVIER González-Caballero — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Research is an inherent fact to every professional that allows not only reflection on the daily reality where they work, but also provides knowledge for its subsequent application. In this context, nursing research is defined as a scientific process that validates and improves the existing knowledge and generates new information that influences professional practice. From this perspective, once incorporated and recognized as a university discipline, nursing competencies have evolved into a position that provoque an exercise of the profession with full technical and scientific autonomy. However, this professional practice is subject to the limitations of the principles and values included in the legal and deontological system, basing the criteria for action on access to the necessary means and the best available scientific evidence. In a complementary way, professional practice must be based on two pillars: guidelines and protocols for clinical and care practice. Therefore, aiming to achieve efficiency and good work in research, the principles of interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity applicable to occupational health professional teams must constitute a maxim.

EVALUATION OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF BURNOUT AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS ON THE PHYSICAL HEALTH OF TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTES IN MALAGA (SPAIN)

CELIA ORTIZ TOMÉ — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Objectives: To compare the level of stress and burnout of school and high school teachers in the province of Malaga (Spain) and to identify the association between the level of stress and burnout of school and high school teachers and the presence of cardiovascular, digestive and skin diseases; musculoskeletal pain and headaches; toxic habits; and alterations in physiological and biochemical variables.

Methods: Comparative cross-sectional observational study. The scope of the study was the Occupational Risk Prevention Center of Malaga (Spain). The estimated sample was 201 teachers (91 teachers of secondary education and/or baccalaureate and 110 teachers of infant and/or primary education).

Results: The mean figures for occupational stress and burnout were higher in those teachers who taught secondary education and/or high school than in those who taught infant and/or primary education, and these differences were statistically significant. A significant association was found between belonging to secondary education and/or baccalaureate levels and the variables role stress and musculoskeletal pain. For the remaining variables related to the presence of health disorders, toxic habits and alteration of physiological parameters, no statistically significant mean differences were found.

Conclusions: This work represents an approach to the knowledge of how stress and burnout affect the physical health of teachers, offering itself as a tool for the development of specific prevention strategies adapted to the reality of teachers in the province.

Effect of covid-19 on the flu vaccine coverage in the staff of the Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada (Spain)

ELDA COLINO-ROMAY — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Introduction. The objectives were to know the influenza vaccination coverage among the staff of the Fuenlabrada University Hospital between 2006-2020 and its acceptance after Covid-19; and to analyze vaccination coverage by profession and year of vaccination, and to establish vaccination strategies to increase the adherence of hospital personnel.

Methods. A longitudinal descriptive study was carried out between 2006 and 2020 at the Fuenlabrada University Hospital, which had an average of 1,584 workers in the 11 years studied. Vaccine acceptance was measured through the data entered by the SPRL in the Sispal vaccination registry of the Community of Madrid. Study variables: Profession (Healthcare, Non-Healthcare) and number of vaccines administered.

Results. A total of 6,074 workers were vaccinated in the years from 2006-2020, with a general vaccination coverage rate of 24.56%. Total vaccination coverage was higher in 2020, the year after the Covid-19 Pandemic, where the vaccination rate was 68.15%) and in 2007 with the lowest vaccination record, with an Rate of 13.95%. By type of profession; non-healthcare personnel are vaccinated more (22.52%) than healthcare personnel (15.92%).

Conclusions.Vaccination coverage increases in the years in which specific epidemic waves appear, such as the one that occurred in 2020. The modification in the vaccination strategy, generating greater adherence of the professional, a specific education and facilitating the accessibility of schedules and going to Its units without the need for personnel displacement, has significantly helped increase the acceptance of vaccination.

Living a calling in precarious employment: an integrative review of consequences on professional and personal lives

Marja Hult — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100

The working life trend in recent years has been precarious employment. At the same time, people seek callings and more meaningfulness from work. Therefore, the purpose of this integrative review study is to identify, describe, and synthesize studies on precarious employment and having a calling. An integrative review method was used. Data from eight papers were analyzed using the constant comparison method. Precarious employment and having a calling was a sparsely studied area. Precarious employment was related to job insecurity, poor working conditions, and financial burdens. More subjective characteristics were poor career management and development possibilities, limited autonomy, and tensions concerning workers’ identities. However, some workers chose precarity and financial insecurity to be able to fulfill their calling. Having a calling was related to low-paid professions. Precarious employment offers poor job security, career opportunities, working conditions, and low levels of autonomy. These negatively affect workers’ careers, wellbeing and health and make it hard for them to maintain their calling. Employers should pay attention to the quality of working life and better recognize calling as an important resource in work. Occupational health care can support workers having a calling and who are in precarious employment.

NANDA-I DIAGNOSIS RISK OF OCCUPATIONAL INJURY (00265): CLINICAL CASE

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100

The Occupational Nursing professional is a key piece in the approach to sleep disorders derived from labor aspects as well as in the prevention of their appearance or of the damages caused by it and the adoption of measures that promote occupational health in relation to these disorders. A clinical case of Occupational Nursing is presented where the worker manifests a symptomatology derived from the working conditions to which he is subjected. After the assessment, it is determined that the factors associated with the working conditions are the trigger of the referred insomnia symptoms and that these pose a risk of occupational injury in the worker.